CompuServe Messages

Angelo, About the only thing you can do to reduce the "fault-line" in Vistapro is to render at twice the image size that you want and use HALFTGA.EXE or HALFPCX.EXE to reduce the files as they're rendered using the batch processing function in Vistapro 3.1. HALFTGA and HALFPCX shrink TGA and PCX files to half size (both dimensions) and produce antialiased output files — the fault-line (I call it the event-horizon) disappears in the antialiasing. You can reduce the texture level by one setting (use medium instead of high) to keep the rendering time down. Even without considering the fault-line, animations look much better with HALFTGA(TGA) antialiasing. For instance, if you want 640×480 TGA files, render at 1280×960 and elect to run HALFTGA.BAT when Vistapro asks for the optional batch file to execute after each frame. The resulting output files will be shrunken from 1280×960 down to 640×480 immediately after each frame is saved to disk. The batch files are standard DOS batch files so you can perform any function (program) that you can form the command line or a DOS batch file. John.